World's Greatest Drag Race

2020 threw us all a curveball, but nothing can stop the World's Greatest Drag Race. We present the Elite 8 Challenge: head-to-head races with this year's most exciting cars!

Once again, the MotorTrend team descends upon the runway at Vandenberg Air Force Base with a dozen of the hottest, quickest and most-powerful new cars on the market for one reason: a big, crazy drag race!

The race for fastest car doubles-down with an additional half-mile run on a 15,000-foot runway at Vandenberg Air Force Base, where rockets launch, space shuttles land and this battle will be decided.

For eight years, Motor Trend has been lining up some of the greatest supercars in the world and hosting a massive drag race. For the first time ever, we take a look across all the episodes, breaking down how the show is made.

Motor Trend's 2018 Best Driver's Car contenders compete in the World's Greatest Drag Race.

Senior Features Editor Jonny Lieberman hosts a quick tour of the 12 Best Driver's Car competitors before drivers strap into their insurance-mandated helmets and firesuits and introduce pedal to metal.

Jason Cammisa and Jonny Lieberman go through a quick tour of the 12 Motor Trend Best Driver's Car competitors before strapping into their insurance-mandated helmets and firesuits and introducing pedal to metal.

All 10 contenders from Motor Trend's 2015 Best Driver's Car competition gather on an abandoned airstrip at El Toro Marine Base to find out which one is the fastest.

All 10 contenders from Motor Trend's 2014 Best Driver's Car Powered by Mobil 1 competition gather on an abandoned airstrip at El Toro Marine Base to find out which one is the fastest.

The 2013 contenders from Motor Trend's Best Driver's Car competition gather on an abandoned airstrip at El Toro Marine Base to sprint for glory and bragging rights.

The World's Greatest Drag Race for 2012 features all nine contenders from the year's Best Driver's Car competition of the world's best supercars, sports cars and muscle cars.

With an empty airstrip and eleven of the best driver's cars in the world, Motor Trend puts on the world's greatest drag race.